Buckboard Days Parade and Festival

This year’s Buckboard Days Parade and Festival will be held on Saturday, October 20, 2018 and will be bigger than ever with the theme, “Passport Through Rowland Heights.” The parade begins at 9 a.m. at the corner of Nogales and Colima and will conclude at Rowland Heights County Park for the Festival from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The parade will feature a variety of local school bands, community organizations, equestrian groups, floats and a horse-drawn buckboard. The 2018 Grand Marshal is Congressman Ed Royce.

Following the Buckboard Days Parade will be a Family Festival at Rowland Heights County Park from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. For everyone’s enjoyment, there will be entertainment on stage and throughout the park with a variety of community booths offering food, handmade arts and crafts and community information and services until 2 p.m. organized by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.

The Hacienda Heights Kiwanis will be sponsoring a pancake breakfast before the parade, starting at 7 a.m. Come early and enjoy breakfast at the Bell Memorial Church parking lot on Nogales near the corner of Colima (1747 Nogales St, Rowland Heights). Breakfast is $5 per person.